Abstract:Tobacco smoking is one of the urgent social and medical problems of our time, as well as the cause of many serious diseases (oncological, cardiovascular, respiratory, etc.). The prevalence of smoking in Ukraine remains at a fairly high level: on average, 40.1% of men and 8.9% of women smoke (this is almost ¼ of the entire adult population). The harmful effects of tobacco smoking are well known to doctors of various specialties, but few people pay attention to the fact that smoking also causes negative conseque… Show more
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